A Good Year. To sum it up: Russell Crowe leaves his money-making English life behind, where he goes around trying to convince women to have sex with him for a life in France where makes money, goes around trying to convince women to have sex with him and drinks wine. Nice vineyards, sunsets, “arses”, bras,… Continue Reading

A Monster Calls. Star Rating: 5 stars Rating: 12 Release Date: 2016/2017 Cast: Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Toby Kebell Based on Patrick Ness’ award winning novel, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd. It is not often when a film based on a book, which will forever remain one of the […]

High Rise. Rating: 15 Release Date: 2016 Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Elizabeth Moss, Luke Evans, Reece Shearsmith “For all its inconveniences Laing was pleased with life in the High Rise”. The opening line, told 3 months after the beginning of the story, describing a life filled with chaos and social divides. Laing […]

Moonlight Release Date: 2017 (UK) Rating: 15 Cast: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Ashton Sanders, Danielle Monae, Duan Sanderson, Alex R. Hibbert, Jaden Piner. It is impossible to say with any single word or sentence fully what Moonlight is or what it represents. There is something so layered and with such depth that cannot be pinned […]

Agatha Christie Classic Thriller – The Hollow. By Banbury Cross Players Agatha Christie’s classic murder-mystery comes to a new light in the most recent play from Banbury Cross Players. A group of relatives gather at ‘The Hollow’, when John Cristow (here played by Nik Lester), is reunited to Veronica Craye (played by Hannah Smart), a […]